Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yikes, Conseula! Hopefully that week will use up a lifetime's worth of bad luck in one go!
Bac-O-Bits? Those are soy, not bacon.
No, I was talking about the actual pre-cooked bacon bits in a bag. Though I have been known to buy Bacos as salad toppings (or snacks in and of themselves) as well..
In other news, I learned last night that the Japanese place a block from me makes delicious volcano rolls. That coupled with a price increase this week at my regular Saturday lunch sushi place may have me defecting. (They could fight back by seating me in the sections waited on by hot athletic college guys, which the nearer place doesn't have, but I think they turn male customers over to the waitresses as a matter of policy.)
We have VOIP phones. And are using webex for some meetings. Between the quality of the VOIP for people calling in, Webex, people on cells, people...it's just awful.
Today is the first day of spring. In the Persian calendar is is also New Years - No Rouz. The typical greeting is Edie Shoma Mobarak.
It is a day for wearing new clothes and visiting friends and family. It is also a tradition to set up a Haft Sin (seven s's). This is a table setting that includes...
sabzeh – wheat, barley or lentil sprouts growing in a dish – symbolizing rebirth
samanu – a sweet pudding made from wheat germ – symbolizing affluence
senjed – the dried fruit of the oleaster tree – symbolizing love
sīr – garlic – symbolizing medicine
sīb – apples – symbolizing beauty and health
somaq – sumac berries – symbolizing (the color of) sunrise
serkeh – vinegar – symbolizing age and patience.
Other items are often placed on the table such as coins to represent wealth, a mirror to represent honesty, decorated eggs (fertility), and a bowl of water with a goldfish to represent life within life.
I have always loved No Rouz because it is a huge Iranian holiday that has nothing to do with religon. I wish I could travel to visit each of you or welcome you into my home and serve you amazing Persian food.
I hope you're feeling a little better this morning, ita,
-t, where does one get shelf-stable cream? Though what I really want is a source for those tiny creamers you get at restaurants. Those would be best, so I don't open a big thing of creamer, use it for two days, and then leave for a week.
That's lovely, Suzi. And I am coincidentally wearing clothes I haven't worn before, so I feel like I"m celebrating a little now. Edie Shoma Mobarak
Eta: Trader Joe's had boxes of shelf-stable cream at Thanksgiving time, 8 oz each, so I stocked up then. Costco seems like they would have huge boxes of the little restaurant creamers, now that I think about it.
So far 2013 hasn't been that great, so I certainly welcome the beginning of a new year, particularly one with delicious Persian food in it!
Mmm, delicious Persian food sounds marvelous.
TJ's still has shelf-stable cream--check the baking section, where you can also get sweetened condensed milk in a bottle rather than a can. Me, I need to lay in some shelf-stable milk for the next time I run out.
Driver's door? Whoa, super scary.
Nope, passenger rear. But the angle was... unsettling. She's fine, just really shaken up. It's funny, she noted the same thing I did, which is that gunshots in real life don't sound like they do on tv: they sound much more like firecrackers. Much less bass & reverb.
Consuela - has she talked with the police?
Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Where's spring? 2nd most extreme March jet stream pattern on record extends winter | Weather Underground
This is the second most extreme March value of the index since record keeping began in 1948; only an AO value of -6.3 in March 1970 was more extreme. We've had some wildly variable jet stream patterns in recent years in the Northern Hemisphere. Just last year, we had the opposite extreme in March, when our ridiculous "Summer in March" heat wave brought a week of temperatures in the 80s to the Midwest U.S. The first day of spring today in Chicago, IL is expected to have a high temperature of just 25°F--a 60 degree difference from last year's high of 85°F on March 20!
